The great adventure of Panama: wherein are exposed its relation to the Great War and also the luminous traces of the German conspiracies against France and the United States

The great adventure of Panama: wherein are exposed its relation to the Great War and also the luminous traces of the German conspiracies against France and the United States
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98 Historia general de América del Sur - History of ancient world; of specific continents, countries, localities; of extraterrestrial worlds

The purpose of this present book is to show that the German invasion was not limited to the United States, that the Boche insidious conspiracies are and were always built up in all the countries of the earth; that in these conspiracies a constant use is made of the internal strifes about purely domestic affairs in order to prepare the ways of German military aggressions.

Introducción

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Mr. Roosevelt, during the first revolutionary
attempts, avoided anything which could resemble
collusion. The abandonment of Amador, by
those who had promised him everything, was the
obvious demonstration that the American Government had refused to lend itself to anything of a
compromising character. The action of President
Roosevelt was as correct as it was active and
resolute.
Colombia can brandish her titles of property
over the Isthmus. Her claim is that of Shylock
asking for the pound of flesh. The title of Shylock was also perfectly well established, but his
claim was untenable.
The claim of Colombia is, and will remain, untenable, because she herself forfeited her rights
by her policy, the Boche policy. Her rights challenged superior rights: the right of a nation to
exist; the right of humanity to circulate. She
had violated the very basis of her sovereign rights,
namely, the duty of the sovereign to protect his
subjects.
Vith a stroke of the pen she had condemned the
whole of the population of one of her provinces to
destruction in order to satisfy German greed.
With a stroke of the pen she had challenged the
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whole of humanity which had a preeminent ri~ht
of way across the Isthmus.
With a stroke of the pen she had cynically announced her will to confiscate from the French
share- and bond-holders all that still remained
from the wreck of their great enterprise.
With a stroke of the pen she had disavowed her
contract for the extension of the term of the French
concession, on the pretext that certain formalities
had not been fulfilled, whereas through her own
fault it had been a physical impossibility to fulfil
them.
These are the violations of superior rights which
made the Revolution of Panama the most legitimate of protests against tyranny. These are the
.violations of superior rights which vitiate the protests of Colombia, as the very object of the contract of Shylock vitiated his cla...